Korea Federation of SMEs to Implement '2025 Conformity Assessment Capacity Building Support Project'

First-Come, First-Served Until Budget Is Exhausted Starting from the 6th

The Korea Federation of SMEs announced on the 5th that it will implement the '2025 Conformity Assessment Capacity Building Support Project' to strengthen the conformity assessment capabilities of small and medium enterprise cooperatives.

Conformity assessment refers to calibration, certification, testing, inspection, etc., that evaluate whether products and services comply with national and international standards. The support target for this project is small and medium enterprise cooperatives under the Small and Medium Enterprise Cooperatives Act that perform (or are scheduled to perform) conformity assessment tasks based on laws and regulations. Applicant cooperatives can receive support for conformity assessment-related training costs and national accredited qualification acquisition costs for their employees, up to a maximum of 1.25 million KRW per cooperative.

The supported training and qualification exams are directly related to the cooperative's conformity assessment tasks, including ▲training for acquiring and maintaining certification auditor qualifications ▲standard drafting training ▲training for employees of KOLAS (Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) accredited institutions ▲quality management engineer, quality management technician, and quality management industrial technician under the National Technical Qualifications Act ▲technical engineer, engineer, and industrial engineer training and qualification exams within the scope of certification audit tasks.

Applications for the project will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis from the 6th until the project budget is exhausted. Detailed project information can be found on the Korea Federation of SMEs website or in the project announcement on the Group Standard Certification Comprehensive Portal notice board.

Yang Chan-hoe, Head of the Innovation Growth Division at the Korea Federation of SMEs, said, "We expect that the Cooperative Conformity Assessment Capacity Building Support Project will enhance the expertise of cooperatives in group standard certification tasks, contributing to improving the reliability of certified products and expanding their market channels."

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